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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Doctoral Research Showcase on April 7, 2015, Noon - 2 p.m

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL presents the Doctoral Research Showcase.Eighty-five recipients of prestigious doctoral fellowships willpresent their work in a casual and conversational environment. Ourdoctoral students fuel the engine of research and discovery - they arethe creators of new knowledge and the next generation of innovators.You'll have the chance to interact with them one-on-one and learn howtheir work benefits students, scholars, and communities across thestate, the nation, and the world.

Presentations will encompass a wide-range of topics and disciplines,from increasing self-control skills in preschool children todisability and living arrangements in later life; from the causes andconsequences of hospital financial performance to the relationshipbetween consumer confidence and fluctuations in business cycles; fromthe behavioral responses of moose to climate change in northeastMinnesota to the environments of hyper-giant stars; from the effectsof green tea extract on biomarkers of breast cancer risk to the impactof same-sex marriage on LGBT health; from the design of a multi-robotsystem to help monitor the location of invasive fish in Minnesotalakes to the design of a new telescope that sees gravity.